Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Uros Nedic wrote: >> ...why SUN, as a global corporation when decided to go to the market of >> operating systems >> for personal computers, laptops, nettops, netbooks, etc., did not make some >> contacts with >> Adobe, Autodesk, Wolfram Research and other software vendors to ask them for >> porting their >> commercial software to OpenSolaris? > > What makes you think Sun didn't do this? The soon-to-be-released Adobe > Acrobat > for OpenSolaris & Solaris x86 is one example of a company heavily lobbied by > Sun > to port. When it comes to dealing with other companies, you're not going to > know most of what happens, because it happens behind closed doors - not all > companies are interested in transparency or in weakening their position in > ongoing negotiations by having details made public. > >> And for the end of this letter - last observation. Here, we will develop >> drivers for existing >> and old devices, but also, SUN should approach big hardware vendors (at >> least!), and agree >> with them driver support for their future hardware products. > > Again, been happening for years. In the area I'm most familiar with, Intel & > nVidia work with us to make sure their new graphics products have drivers when > released.
Sun has been working for years with AMD but still we are unable to get a decent graphic driver for ATI cards. Do you know what's going on here? -- Renaud
